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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
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Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
— Diablo Cody
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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to…
— John Viney
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Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or…
— Unknown Author
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must…
— Arundhati Roy
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Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole…
— Christopher Hibbert
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No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out…
— Michael Ghiselin
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined…
— Jean Cocteau
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A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that…
— Vladimir Lenin
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One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
— Milton Friedman
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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or…
— Abraham Lincoln
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